₦airaland Forum

Odingo1:

Without the backing of UK and Russia millitary,Ojukwu ragtag army would have defeated Nigeria army on neutral ground.
If war is fought today between the Eastern Nigeria and North on neutral ground,the east will deafeat the north within 6 months.

ehie:
the best thing i am doing his year is educating myself on what really went down in the 60's.
The Igbos did not get up one day and start the war, you need to understand how they were killed by soilders, baying mobs, i read one woman had to escape east with the head of her baby,, they were thrown over the river benue, woe betide you if they saw you wearing western garb you were dead, soilders were killed in their brigadeds, it was for their safety that is was decided that all the esterners should return home, because of how they killed them it got so bad that after killing the top igbo officers, they installed Hassan Katsina as the CoS, when they was a Yoruba Brigadier ahead of him, infact Murtala Muhammed our fake hero, was the loudest baying for blood and seeking for seccession from Nigeria.Igbos never wanted a war, but the had to fight because they were being killed in droves.Ojukwu even refused to meet any of the SMC outside the east, that was how bad it got.

attackgat:
You have never had to fight a war to liberate your self from oppression, that why you can say things like this.

A people wanted to be free and fought hard for their freedom even against impossible odds. To me, that is a most honourable thing to do. To turn around and become a Northern slave in other to avoid war like Awolowo and the rest did is a cowards way out of a fight and Im glad Ojukwu did not bow to it. Im an Igbo man, if someone is going to bring me to my knees, it will be after they beat me in a fight rather than me kneeling out of fear and cowardice.

mpianya39:
Oga professor throwback does these your grammar change the fact that Mr. Awolowo admitted initiating the food policy that killed 3 million kids

mpianya39:
Imagine conehead and their reasoning

mpianya39:
Somehow, in his 1983 electioneering remark, republished recently in the heat of Mr. Achebe’s allegations, Mr. Awolowo admitted initiating the food policy, but said it was targeted at Biafra’s fighting personnel to help bring the war to a quick close.


King of rat poison may you never no peace even in that grave yard

Rest in pieces son of devil

In 1953 when Northern Nigerians were beginning to consider secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be a nation, Nnamdi Azikiwe gave a speech before the caucus of his political party, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in Yaba, Nigeria on May 12, 1953. That speech, while not disallowing secession, suggested that there would be grave consequences if the Northern region became an independent nation. Ironically, fourteen years later, Azikiwe led his Eastern Region out of Nigeria and created Biafra, a move that prompted a bloody three year civil war. Azikiwe's 1953 speech appears below.


...It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region, which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger, except upon payment of tolls. It may lead to economic warfare between the North on the one hand, and the Eastern or Western regions on the other, should they decide to fix protective tariffs which will make the use of the ports of the Last and West uneconomic for the North.
The North may be rich in mineral resources and certain cash crops, but that is no guarantee that it would be capable of growing sufficient food crops to enable it to feed its teeming millions, unlike the East and the West. Secession may create hardship for Easterners and Westerners who are domiciled in the North, since the price of food crops to be imported into the North from the South is bound to be very high and to cause an increase in the cost of living. Lastly, it will endanger the relations with their neighbours of millions of Northerners who are domiciled in the East and West and Easterners and Westerners who reside in the North.
You may ask me whether there would be a prospect of civil war, if the North decided to secede? My answer would be that it is a hypothetical question which only time can answer. In any case, the plausible cause of a civil war might be a dispute as to the right of passage on the River Niger, or the right of flight over the territory of the Eastern or Western Region; but such disputes can be settled diplomatically, instead of by force.
Nevertheless, if civil war should become inevitable at this stage of our progress as a nation, then security considerations must be borne in mind by those who are charged with the responsibility of government of the North and the South. Military forces and installations are fairly distributed in all the three regions; if that is not the case, any of the regions can obtain military aid from certain interested Powers. It means that we cannot preclude the possibility of alliance with certain countries.
You may ask me to agree that if the British left Nigeria to its fate, the Northerners would continue their uninterrupted march to the sea, as was prophesied six years ago? My reply is that such an empty threat is devoid of historical substance and that so far as I know, the Eastern Region has never been subjugated by any indigenous African invader. At the price of being accused of overconfidence, I will risk a prophecy and say that, other things being equal, the Easterners will defend themselves gallantly, if and when they are invaded.

ehie:
and to think the first coup by Nzeogwu was to remove Akintola and restore Awololo to power, he turned around to cause children to starve, may his descnedatns and that of Gowon and he likes never know peace

In a 1996 interview, Effiong reflected on those events:

I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .
I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .
At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and Ojukwu had fled, I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . .

ikevictor:
You are such a good writer...and an apparent honest one.

But just because you sound like a politician or content editor from the political space. I choose not to believe you...

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has concluded that Mrs. Stella Oduah, the Minister, is a serial liar.

In a report on its investigation obtained by SaharaReporters, the committee dismissed every single claim the Minister made during her testimony to the committee earlier in the week concerning the purchase of two bulletproof cars for her by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

It stressed there was no appropriation for the purchase of the two armoured cars, and stressed that the NCAA proposal for the purchase of the two MBW armoured cars was rejected.

“There was no provision for armoured vehicle in Nigerian law for a minister in any event, any procurement for an armoured vehicle must be provided for in the appropriation act and backed by relevant approval,” the report said.

The committee also noted that the Minister and the Director-General of the NCAA claimed that both vehicles were purchased under a lease agreement with First Bank plc.

“The assertion is not true because First Bank plc clearly stated that they were procured under auto loan, this is clearly shown by the loan agreement between NCAA and First Bank.”

Furthermore, it said, “The document submitted shows that BMW chassis No. DW68044 and DW68032 while on ground committee inspect BMW vehicle chassis No. DW68044 and W68011 , the identity of W68011 is still unknown to the committee because the vehicle chassis number did not tally with the documents submitted.”

Turning to other testimonies, the committed recalled that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, clearly stated in her presentation that her Ministry did not approve any waiver for the two vehicles.

“Coscharis Motors Limited claimed that the Federal Ministry of Finance granted it import duty VAT, ETLS, CISS, and port charges waiver to import two number bullet proof BMW armored cars, this claim is false. The Hon. Minister of Finance in the testimony before the committee stated that the Federal Ministry of Finance only granted waivers to Lagos State Government through Coscharis Motors Limited in 2012 for the importation of 300 units vehicles for use during the 2012 Eko Games and that the waiver did not include the importation of two BMW armored cars.”

Similarly, both Mrs. Oduah and the DG of NCAA claimed in their presentation that the procurement of the operations vehicles complied with the relevant laws of public procurement, fiscal responsibility and due process. This claim was countered by the Bureau of Public Procurement assertion that it was not part of the transaction between NCAA, First Bank and Coscharis Motors Limited to procure the operational vehicles. Furthermore, no evidence at complying with due process was shown however.”

The committee further recalled that Mrs. Oduah also testified that the lease financing arrangement would see NCAA pay N100m by the end of 2013 fiscal year while the balance of N16m will be paid in the following year. The amount, according to the Minister, fell below what is required for Federal Executive Council (FEC) approval.

“However, documents from NCAA indicate that on April 25th 2013, the Hon. Minister approved the sum of N564, 665,000,00m. There is no evidence to show that the Hon. Minister presented NCAA’s request to Federal Executive Council for its approval.”

The committed observed that neither the Minister of Aviation and NCAA submitted copies of necessary documents to validate the claim that the transactions followed due process whatsoever.

Bede2u:
Many cowards in this thread. This happened because the west supported Nigeria, not because Nigeria was stronger than Biafra. But with new war laws, starving civilians is no longer accepted.... thats is partly why universities still remember Biafra war and conduct lectures about it. Using chemical weapons, starving civilians and using human shields are now war crimes and would not be tolerated. If war should happen again for the christian East to be free from the Muslim north, let it.

aribisala0:
People repeat this ignorant rubbish endlessly .The location of corporate headquarters is fiscally neutral. States do not tax corporate profit. The IGR in 1999 was 6 billion before Tinubu took over.We're there no multinationals then?.States can only tax workers and not COMPANIES . Companies especially oil companies have alway paid PAYE for workers and tax for tenement and land use and that did not start in 1999. If a company's main business is outside Lagos then the bulk of its workers will pay PAYE outside Lagos .Why has that not transformed oil producing states' IGR ?

Let us stop this headquarter myth. . Lagos has figured out how to extract
About 50
naira daily on average from its working people

dudebuck:
what is the meaning of boycott? After you say IPOB are illiterates, please define the word boycott

dudebuck:
OMG, the article stated ut clearly that they were banning Nnamdi Kanu or anybody from disrupting the S'Elections, but Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB simply said that her members should boycott the elections, in other words to stay away from it as far as possible. Can I possibly stay in my house eating ofe nsala and minding my own business and at the same time disrupting their farce elections?

wirinet:
You people and lies is like six and half a dozen. This is what IPOB said;



Here is another quote from IPOB;



Does all these sound like IPOB is preparing for a peaceful sit at home election boycott?

dudebuck:
lightning strike all of you, on that day drag me out of my house and make me to vote na make I see

He also asked the court to make an order restraining Kanu and all members of IPOB from interfering, intimidating and harassing all registered and eligible voters in the Nov. 18 Anambra election.

kernel505:
I took my time to read through your sorrow, but one thing I've come to understand is the power of the media towards the gullible ones.

Blackmailing is the hallmark of Sahara Reporters, place show me the video of Nnamdi saying "Buhari is been impersonated by a Sudanese".

Sahara Reporters has been proven time without number as Western Nigeria foremost propagandist. Example, same news outlet called Phillip Emegwalum, fraud, I took my time to read through the editorial, I discovered he had issues with the school awarding him Ph.d, which he sued the school. Sir, all he won was before his Ph.d program, since when did falling out with the university authority turn fraud? He doesn't even use "Dr" on his officially website.

They said Buhari was dead.

They said Dino didn't attend university, the school said otherwise.

rozayx5:
nairaland and their ceo trying their best to paint NNamdi kanu black




funny enough , they have no say in the scheme of things

greatiyk4u:
He is the supervisor there, how can you supervise what you have no idea (technical) of?


Next time reason deeply and repeatedly before coommenting

Nbote:
First question, what evidences did dey have in d first place to have rushed to court and gotten those properties seized in d first place?

Secondly, for d umpteenth time we have seen d so called anti corruption crusade rush into proceedings and rush out and ppl claim d judges are corrupt, and like u said if d courts mandated d release there's nothing wrong in dat, but how com dis same EFCC kips "discovering" houses and properties it alludes to belong to Diezani and claims to kip seizing dem while most ppl like u question d legitimacy of her alleged wealth yet she hasn't even been charged for a single offence yet? Who's the greater hypocrite?

Another property discovered in Diezani 's name and multiple threads would spring up on how she's d most corrupt and blah blah blah but now u don't see anything wrong in dis one a former governor owning 48 houses? If U won't question d legitimacy of his wealth atleast question d legitimacy of EFCC's claims den..

Malawian:
Chai, Igbo people are really fast learners. by the time IPOB finishes with Nigeria, if they start any war against Biafrans, they will have no allies. Isolate the enemy!! the hunter is now hunted.